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I LOLed at the thing about how "Hitler was elected for 'change' too," because Hitler wasn't really elected. He became Chancellor as part of a deal with conservatives who preferred him to the Communists. The Nazis never won a majority of German votes in a fair election. A plurality, yes. It would be the equivalent of one of our major parties handing control of the reins of power to a handful of extremists in the hope that they would defeat their political opponents... OH WAIT.

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It doesn’t take a rocket scientist or a Ph.D. in history to know that every mass-murdering tyranny in the history of the world started like this. They began with a government monopoly on force.

It also doesn't take a rocket scientist (or even a political scientist) or a PhD in history (or even anything else) to know that Weber would contend that a government monopoly on force is the defining characteristic of any state-level society, be it a mass-murdering tyranny like NObama's America or a no-murdering freedomocracy like Reagan's America. It doesn't even take a rocket scientist or a PhD in history to understand that this line of thought can be traced back at least as far as the 17th century (cf. Leviathan) and probably back to the goddamn Constitution of the Lacedaemonians or the Code of Hammurabi. It does, however, take a very special combination of stupidity and ignorance to come up with the sorts of uninformed bloviations on the history of political thinking that Joseph Farah squeezes out of his face cloaca - I've seen better and more informed critiques of the relationship between the state and violence in toothpaste commercials.

All the screeching about how Obama's modest proposals are unconstitutional!!! merely underscores rightwinger ignorance of what's actually in the Constitution, and how it has been interpreted in the past.

Machine guns have been illegal for civilians to purchase since the 1980s; somehow the Supreme Court has failed to find this restriction unconstitutional. Semi-automatic assault weapons were illegal to purchase for close to 10 years and somehow the Supreme Court failed to find that a violation of the Second Amendment as well. It's possible that this happened because there's no explicit right to own specific types of weapons guaranteed by the Amendment.

The Amendment likewise is silent on the issue of background checks and registration of firearms, CDC research into the causes of gun violence, and a whole plethora of other tangential issues.

What it is NOT silent on is something gun nuts would like to gloss over - the bit about "well-regulated militias" - which could be interpreted as requiring gun owners to take classes instructing the proper handling and use of firearms at a minimum. Regarding that bit, the whole registration thing finds its legal penumbra - it's kind of hard to argue that the "gun for every man, woman and child" stance of the NRA meets the "well-regulated militia" standard unless we have registration. It's kind of hard to have a militia that's regulated even poorly if you don't even know who the members of it are.

Pretty much nothing short of "hand in every gun of every type in your possession" would run afoul of the Second Amendment, but the monkeys have learned that if they shriek loud enough and throw enough poop, everyone who recognizes this will just leave the monkey house.

I get your point, though, that what Farah is describing as the beginning of "every mass-murdering tyranny in the history of the world" is specifically what everyone else has described as "civilisation".

The truth is, the left in its most metatastic virulent ugly progressive cannot survive without straw men and bogey men; which reduces to "white men" because women of all races, and minorities of all descriptions are 'okay' and need not feel guilty for losing (or winning) some fantasy obstetrical lottery......

I'm fairly certain that if there ever actually was an invasion to repel, an insurrection to suppress, or laws of the union to enforce, the militia commanders would find Owens and Goldstein hiding under their beds.

In a fun earlier post, Owens imagined the inevitable armed insurgency when Obama's Sturmtruppen came for their guns. Unnamed citizens and federal agents will be the first to die, and they will die by the dozens and maybe hundreds, but famous politicians will soon join them in a spate of revenge killings, many of which will go unsolved.Indeed. Even the Sherlock Holmes himself would be stumped as to who was doing all the shooting.

Nut-picking always reaps a bumper harvest down on Owens' farm, but my fave was an enumerated prescription for organizing the troops for victory in the coming war:

#4: Repost every articulate response and post you read from fellow conservatives – no matter how many times you read it. Copy and paste until your fingers bleed.

After so many years of every minor statement of Obama being interpreted as the very end of civilization itself, you might think that even the most dense of rightwing followers would begin falling off the turnip truck. But apparently there are plenty of folks operating in day-to-day life at the intellectual level of Jim Hoft.

I don't really give a shit what he does with the gun issue. My guess is nothing will change much. As for tyranny, how many Americans does he have to assassinate before it becomes tyranny? Is it 100, 1000? Please inform.

Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead.

And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel to fetch the sub-machine guns of the children of Benjamin.

And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.

Narcissist is the charge of choice on the crazy women need mental health care too family board I lurk on. ITs a very popular ground level psych diagnosis right up there with sociopath. It was lobbed quite a bit in Obama's first term when many people seemed to argue that Obama's self esteem was perversley high for a guy who had only just been elected the first black US president and received the Nobel Peace Prize. His unbecoming lack of humility in accepting both was proof that he had the typical narcissist's grandiose self regard and that he was detatched from the real reality in which he wasn't, actually, President and hadn't actually received the Peace Prize. Like a lot of people, including apparently Obama, I didn't think he "deserved" the prize but, damn, the guy was entitled to think that he'd received it--it wasn't exactly identical to Walter Mitty day dreaming about things he'd like to have done.

Even more true: if the Government called up each and every "well regulated militiaman" or gun owner and tried to ship them off to fight enemies, foreign and domestic, they would all run shrieking in the other direction while speed dialing the ACLU. IF well regulated meant anything to the founders it was that the militia could be called up and forced to fight.

They DO fall off the (!) Turnup-truck! Then they chase after the truck screaming "Wait for ME! Wait for ME!". They collapse by the side of the road in exhaustion and despair (must have run 50 yards!) and LO! along comes another Turnup-truck.

I fully support Wayne LaPierre '16. America hasn't had a case of suspected spontaneous combustion in like a century or so, and four years of Wayne LaPierre White House Press Conferences--if his post-Sandy Hook press conference is any indication--could cause at least a couple rows of White House correspondent heads to explode.

Or at the very least, I'm unaware that a press conference has ever had a recorded instance of a bureau chief asking "wait, what?"

As much as I love Ed Schultz, when he starts nattering on about hunting, he loses me. I have, in the past, enjoyed target shooting (taught to me by my father, as often happens), but the "sport" of using live animals for target practice, and then stuffing and mounting the heads or the whole animal in order, I suppose, to prove that you killed it just doesn't register. Could someone explain it?

You've hit on it: there's still a war to be won in Afghanistan against the enemies of liberty! Militiamen, hie thee to the dusty Kandahar Road, where the firing of automatic weapons is not only legal but encouraged! Bring your YouTubes! Record your jubilant victories for posterity!

(with apologies to Kipling)

"When the gun-toting wingnut arrives in the EastWith his AR-15 and its safety released,And the space 'tween his cheeks is suddenly creased:He learns the intent of militias!Learns, learns, learns the plain language,The Founders' intent for Militias!

Now all you Cheetosians who're drafted to-day,The Second Amendment has brought you this way,You cherish it more than gun safety, you say,So respond with the requisite duty, duty, duty~ You mouthbreathing wingnuts ~ your duty.

When you come under fire and everyone ducks,And all of a sudden tricornery sucks,Hold fast to your love of your piece, you dumb schmucks,And shoot at the guys like you practiced, practiced, practiced,Where you herped and you derped while you practiced.

When the Humvee you're in gets all riddled with holes,And you realize this isn't Portland, or Kohl's,Where walking with rifles your ego extols,You're doing your job as a solder.A Second Amendment firearms holder!A solider ~OF~ of the Militia!

If you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,Like the victims whose tales spur gun safety campaigns,That you mocked and derided because you lack brains,Maybe then you'll concede Regulation. It's not negation! Or castration!Maybe then you'll concede Regulation."

I don't listen to Ed Schultz, and I've never been hunting, but I have had some mouth-watering venison and pheasant. If you eat meat, somebody's got to kill an animal; if the animal in question is wild and sustainably taken, I have no objections.

Killing something you're not going to eat just to show off your shooting prowess is just jerking off, though.

Most hunters are subsistience hunting, putting organic free-range meat into the freezer at something less than Whole Foods prices. Some of it is pest control--rabbits and rats in the UK; deer in North America. (Shooting prairie dogs at long range isn't pest control; it's being a cheap fuck who doesn't want to pay for a fence.)

Some trophies come off meat animals; I have no idea why anyone would imagine a cougar's skin looks any better without a cougar inside of it.

That's actually one of the really funny things about the lunatic Citadel guys out in Idaho--they were going to require a yearly proficiency demonstration with your AR-15. I don't know if they'd kick one out if you couldn't shoot straight, but it's a hell of a lot more than any wingnuts have suggested.

Some additional revolutionary tactics by which the wingnut warriors can recapture the spirit of Valley Forge:

Stamp your feet until you twist an ankle!Make prank calls until they cut off your phone service!Listen to Glenn Beck until your ears bleed!Photoshop Obama pictures until you run out of RAM!Eat Chick-Fil-A until your bowels can't take it!

Obama's linkage of mental health and guns seems to have unnerved a bunch of the wingers, if only because they implicitly understand that their obsessions with both guns and Obama are signs that others might interpret as indicators of deteriorating mental health.

Since they already have long histories of being thoroughly irrational about Obama and about guns, they now have no choice but to become completely bugfuck nuts about mental health.

I fully expect Godlstein to lead that charge (from a safe distance, of course).

They never had any choice about anything--everything is always someone else's fault. The real slogan of these people isn't "give me liberty or give me death" but "he made me do it" followed by bursting into tears.

My father was a bird hunter, and it takes good reflexes to knock a moving target out of the air:

The traditional September first dove opener is almost certainly the single biggest opening day in the United States. It's also one of the single biggest days for shotshell manufacturers, with millions of rounds expended against these speed demons. A dove's small size, speed and acrobatic flight all combine to make it one of wingshooting's most difficult targets. It's said that one bird for five shells is a pretty good average. Usually I can beat that, but add factors like a stiff breeze or birds that have already been shot at and one per five starts to look pretty good!